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Weinstein and the Costs of the Sexual Revolution

Oct 30, 2017

Reading like a Who’s Who of Hollywood actresses, the number of women who have come forward and claimed that they were raped or sexually assaulted and harassed by film producer Harvey Weinstein is now well over 60 and still climbing.

How many more will emerge in the days ahead remains to be seen, but this guy was one big pervert and parasite. In the past few weeks plenty has already been written not only on this sexual predator but on the double standards of Hollywood and the Left.

Weinstein of course was not alone in such sickening behaviour. This sort of behaviour by the big cheeses in Hollywood had been going on for as long as Hollywood existed. Powerful, sexually abusive men and young women ever so desperate to make it big in Tinsel Town.

That is a volatile mix indeed. And one can talk about starlets so keen to get a career in Hollywood that they would allow stuff like this to happen, and not say a word about it for ages. Yes, some are now coming forward, but how many hundreds or thousands of women suffered over the decades?

Of course all of this is simply part of the larger sexual revolution which has plagued the West for over a half century now. Before looking at the issue more generally, let me offer a few worthwhile quotes from some commentators on the Weinstein horror.

Even though most folks knew what was going on, why did it stay hushed up for so long? Lee Smith reminds us of a basic truth here: “The reason no one wrote it is not because the press wanted to get Weinstein, but couldn’t prove the story. No, it’s because the press was protecting Weinstein. Why wouldn’t they? He made terrific movies and he was a big mover in Democratic party politics, raising millions for local and national campaigns, including the Clintons.”www.weeklystandard.com/the-human-stain-why-the-harvey-weinstein-story-is-worse-than-you-think/article/2009995

Promoting the favourite causes of the Left seems to be far more important than uncovering sexual assault. Miranda Devine exposes the double standards going on here:

We’re told his behaviour was an open secret in Hollywood and the media, with a former New York Times reporter Sharon Waxman this week claiming that her piece exposing Weinstein in 2004 was gutted by the newspaper after Weinstein muscled her editors.
It is a hallmark of the Left to give fellow travellers a free pass for any atrocity while screaming blue murder at conservatives for “micro-aggressions” on Twitter. How they moralised when Donald Trump merely talked about touching women inappropriately (“grabbing pussies”) on the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape of 2005, leaked during last year’s election campaign.
Those same moralisers and feminists were the same people who ran protection on Bill Clinton when he was accused of rape and assorted predatory sexual behaviour against young women. Hillary complains about Trump “looming” over her in an election debate, but is silent about her pal Harvey, and excused her husband as just “a hard dog to keep on the porch”. Hypocrisy, thy name is Hillary.
The predators even run protection for each other, like when Weinstein spearheaded Hollywood’s defence of paedophile director Roman Polanski. “It’s a shocking way to treat a man who went through the Holocaust and his wife’s murder” was Weinstein’s take.
But a new generation is refusing to enable sexual predators just because they pay lip service to left wing causes. They seem to believe that virtue signalling should signal actual virtue.www.dailytelegraph.com.au/rendezview/weinstein-represents-all-thats-wrong-with-the-left/news-story/2821daaf8433a3c4966f994e814ce0bb?nk=4f93e6aa739a61cf44339fac8466dbed-1508125083

It’s been a bad month for perverts. We started with the death of Hugh Hefner, an elderly pimp with an affinity for bathrobes who spent six decades sexually exploiting young, desperate women. A couple of weeks later we saw the professional death of Harvey Weinstein, a slightly younger pimp with an affinity for bathrobes who spent three decades sexually exploiting young, desperate women. But, as I’m sure you’ve noticed, the reaction to these two men has been drastically different….
We seem to have a very confused notion of sexual morality. Mostly because we have no notion of it. We’re making it up as we go along. One minute we’re calling a creepy 90-year-old man a hero because he coerced a bunch of girls to get naked for him, the next we’re crucifying a creepy 65-year-old man because he did something quite similar.www.dailywire.com/news/22315/walsh-please-dont-act-shocked-and-appalled-harvey-matt-walsh#exit-modal

The bigger picture

Weinstein’s sin and sleaze is simply part of the bigger sexual revolution which has caused so much havoc for so long now. And the answer to uncontrolled sexual license has always been the Judeo-Christian version of events when it comes to human sexuality.

As Joseph Sobran wrote back in 1993:

It should be obvious that modern society has paid a terrible price – and will go on paying it – for its false separation of ‘morality’ from ‘social problems.’ Sex creates life. This makes it immediately a subject for both moral and social concern… All durable societies have had sexual codes. The variations are less important than what they have in common: a sense of responsibility about reproduction, the assurance that fathers will take care of their children… The Greeks and Romans worshipped fornicating gods; the Jews worshipped a God who forbade fornication. Who survived whom?… The state can’t enforce a sexual code and shouldn’t try to. But it can, without trying, undermine such a code.

Gene Veith further lays out the basic Christian understanding on these matters:

Of course sex is a big deal. How could it not be? Sex generates new life! By attracting men and women into marriage and enabling parenthood, sex creates families! And families are the foundation of all culture! Sex is tied up with our personhood and our most intimate relationships.
Sexual desire is so powerful that it must be restrained, controlled, and channeled. Thus, all true cultures have their sexual taboos and social norms. Even Freud, the patron saint of the sexual revolution whom the revolutionaries got laughably wrong, taught that the sexual desire must be controlled; otherwise, civilization would come apart and individuals would descend into primitive violence and self-destruction.
Sexual self-discipline is rightly a key moral principle. To abandon all sexual restraints is to destroy the family, violate one’s neighbor, and defile oneself. Sexual sins are especially harmful because they lead to other sins, causing others to sin (the person seduced into “consent”; the prostitute; the porn model) and potentially culminating in child murder, when an “unwanted” child is aborted.www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2017/10/sex-is-a-big-deal/

And David French reminds individual Christians of how important things are in this regard:

When husbands and wives understand and adhere to Christian ethics, the dominant result isn’t just a healthy family life, their sex life is often more vibrant than their more “liberated” peers. In other words, the natural result of the Christian sexual ethic is an intact family and a culture of human flourishing. Now is the time for Christians to leave their defensive crouch, to approach the public square with confidence. A wounded and broken sexual culture searches for answers. Who are we to withhold the truth?www.nationalreview.com/article/452683/sex-consent-morality-culture-ruined-sexual-revolution

The nightmare unfolding over in LA is simply a snapshot of a much bigger horror story occurring all over the West. For all of the bad press Judeo-Christianity gets when it comes to sexuality, maybe folks can learn something from this worldview. Its alternative sure is not much of a panacea.

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3 Responses to Weinstein and the Costs of the Sexual Revolution

The “casting-couch” ethos has long been a seamy aspect of Hollywood’s most famous industry. It is all too possible to sell one’s soul in a vain attempt to gain the world. The tale of Goethe’s Dr Faustus and his bargain with the Devil springs to mind.

Though there have been many agencies instrumental in bringing about the present situation not only in Hollywood but every institution of power and influence, and as you, Bill, have said many times [1], it was the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 and the Frankfurt School, in Germany in the 1920s, with its cultural Marxism or political correctness, which have majorly produced the meltdown in sexual morality in Western society….the success of which not even its founding fathers (Marcuse, Ardono, Horkeimer, Lukac and others, inspired by the Marxist anarchist, Gramsci) would have dreamed possible [2].
The Frankfurt School was shut down by Hitler but re – emerged in Columbia University, America, where they proceeded to encourage university and college students to challenge and undermine all authority. After WWII this developed into the sexual revolution of the 1960s and the homosexual Stonewall riots of 1969, all fuelled by the bisexual, paedophile, Alfred Kinsey, using as his pamphleteer, Hugh Heffner of Playboy magazine to pervert the imagination of the West with pornography- the single most powerful means of demoralising a nation.
It is not by encouraging their prey to lie, cheat, gossip or even get drunk that an enemy gains power over their victim. The way to subvert and demoralise not just an individual but a whole nation is through sexual promiscuity.
However, the case against Weinstein has been a gift for the militant feminists to tar all men as being sexual predators, whilst ignoring the “love that dare not speak its name”, Satanic homosexual pederasty being practised in Hollywood [3] . The lefties and Clintonians will do their utmost to suppress these revelations.

Be not too surprised. You have a president who brags about touching women inappropriately and getting away with it because he is rich. That is just plain pathetic! Lets be fair, evil remains evil regardless who is doing it. No one is above God’s law.

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